Tag: Dice Drafting
Posted on August 1, 2025
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Being off for almost the entire month of July, I wasn’t expecting much on the gaming front. However, I managed to attended a Wednesday night meet-up a couple of times, which greatly helped take the place of our normal lunchtime games at work, at… Continue Reading “July 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 2-Player Games, Arcane Wonders, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Card Shedding, Combat Commander, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Favor of the Pharaoh, GMT Games, Little Dog Games, Lookout Games, NEOM, Push Your Luck Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Smartphone Inc, Spring Cleaning, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on July 3, 2025
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Ah, June. Halfway through the year (at the end of it anyway) and it’s good to take stock of where I am in my boardgaming. I’ve played more than half again the number of unique games as I did last year, meaning I (hopefully)… Continue Reading “New to Me – June 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, After Us, AJ Porfirio, Bill Fawcett, Card Games, Catch Up Games, COIN Games, Czech Games Edition, Darwin Bromley, David Karesh, Dice Drafting, Empire Builder, Evan Derrick, Fillers, Final Girl, Florian Sirieix, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Kenneth Tee, Lepidoptery, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Mob+, New Mill Industries, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Pulsar 2849, Resource Management, Route-building, Shem Phillips, Skara Brae, Solo Games, Srinivas Vasudevan, Train Games, Trick & Snipers, Trick-taking games, Van Ryder Games, Vladimír Suchý, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on June 6, 2025
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I know you keep walking by this bar every Friday night and are constantly amazed when you see the big neon “Open” sign. Especially given my history the last few months. But this is now the fifth weekend in a row where you get… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Game Moments That Make You Go “Wow””
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Days of Wonder, Devir, Dice Drafting, Final Girl, Final Girl - Happy Trails Horror, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Res Arcana, Sand Castle Games, Solo Games, The White Castle, Van Ryder Games, Wargames
Posted on May 31, 2025
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I wasn’t expecting too much out of my May gaming period, mainly because of Mother’s Day and two Vancouver marathons meaning that we didn’t have our usual Sunday gaming place for three straight weeks. Suddenly, though, the light appeared and we had an alternate… Continue Reading “May 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, BG Stats, Card Drafting, Civolution, Combat Commander, Delicious Games, Dice Drafting, FloodGate Games, GMT Games, Pegasus Spiele, Sagrada, Sagrada - Great Facades: Life, Schmidt Spiele, Shipyard (2nd Edition), The Taverns of Tiefenthal
Posted on February 28, 2025
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February wasn’t a great month for me overall, in terms of posting (or mental health, really). But it was a great month for games! Missing the first Sunday of the month due to weather, and then only one game on Super Bowl Sunday, I… Continue Reading “February 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, BG Stats, Boardgame Arena, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, Harmonies, Libellud, Mandoo Games, The White Castle, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vale of Eternity - Artifacts
Posted on February 7, 2025
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Hey there! Welcome back to the bar. It’s been a long month and a half, hasn’t it? It’s been under renovations, but we’re back! Until everything breaks down again. I’m going to try and do these posts much more regularly than they have been… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – What Does “Solving” a Game Mean?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Civolution, Cranio Creations, Devir, Dice Drafting, Dice Placement, Flaminia Brasini, Garphill Games, Isra C, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Pegasus Spiele, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Stefan Feld, The White Castle, Virginio Gigli
Posted on June 8, 2024
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I just love “series” boardgames, where you have multiple games in the same setting, though they have different mechanisms and stuff. I think I actually talked about that before. While I haven’t played a bunch of the Valeria series of games, I have played… Continue Reading “Review – Guild Academies of Valeria”
Posted on June 2, 2024
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May seemed like a really dead month for gaming. Hell, we missed out on two Sunday game days (Mother’s Day and a marathon the week before) so I thought it was going to be almost as bad as April. When I looked at my… Continue Reading “May 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 7 Wonders Duel, Alhambra, Card Games, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Guild Academies of Valeria, Lunch Time Games, Queen Games, Repos Games, Team Games, Team Play, Tile-Laying Games, Wizkids
Posted on February 26, 2024
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It’s the first month of the year! And it’s also almost the end of February. Yes, it took so much energy to get my Top 50 games played of all time done, along with getting sick recently, that we’re into the last week of… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Adam Porter, Alain Epron, Alexander Pfister, BLAM Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Claim, Clever 4Ever, Cody Miller, Daily Magic Games, Daniel McKinley, David Turczi, Dice Drafting, Economic Games, Eric Zimmerman, Far Off Games, Funforge Games, German Railroads, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helmut Ohley, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, John David Wood, Kompromat, Leonhard Orgler, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Matches, Mike A Pratt, Nucleum, Pegasus Spiele, Pick Up & Deliver, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Rob Fisher, Roll and Write Games, Romaric Galonnier, Russian Railroads, Schmidt Spiele, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Space Games, Splito, Stan Kordonskiy, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, White Goblin Games, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 28, 2024
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When I was first talking about movement on this list between 2022 and 2024, I wasn’t sure how much movement there would be in the Top 10. Those games are still great, shouldn’t they stay up there? Of course, some games might supplant them,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alexander Pfister, Architects of the West Kingdom, Bezier Games, Block Wargames, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Chad Jensen, Cole Wehrle, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Devir, Dice Drafting, Eggertspiele, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hans im Gluck, Isra C, John Foley, Kai Jensen, Kei Kajino, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Oink Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resist!, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Rondel Games, Root, Salt & Pepper Games, SCOUT, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, The White Castle, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
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